Family unit Worksheets for the ESL

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The worksheets can be an assessment tool for you to identify if there is a gap in the learning process of this unit. Use them as an effective supplement for your textbooks.  Take a look at the all the worksheets that you can find on the resource.

Labeling worksheets are for your students to support writing.Students love to move on to worksheets with the cute family members. 

Some students just need a little help to develop writing in English. Here is a simple tracing worksheet. This one is with mother and father, and I included another worksheet with mom and dad. I can write any word that you are using in your teaching.

Playing Picture Bingo improves family members recognition and their facial features. They will have fun and lower their anxiety factor in class. Have the students color the hair in any of the playing colors by using the small cards included in the resource. Those will be your calling cards.

Teacher: Mother has brown hair! If the student has it, he/she will cross it out. The winner is the one to cross all the family members.

Adding adjectives to express the physical characteristics of the family members can be challenging for the newcomers. Practice using young and old and tall short to make more meaningful the way to talk about the people. This is a set of sorting worksheets. Students will cut any of the worksheets and paste where it corresponds. They can draw or bring pictures of their family members and sort accordingly.

Let’s go for a crossword fun to improve independent learning.

Engage students into writing the real names of their family members. Then, Let’s work on sentence construction to develop the linguistic competence. On a paper or notebook students can write sentences about their families as my example.

Promote active learning with this worksheet.

Students will complete the sentence and will be a prompt for extra writing.

Reading simple sentences and matching to the correct picture and write the corresponding name will model proper writing.

Another worksheet to use for reading short sentences as part of the the reading instruction routine.

Adding a little spice to the writing part, there two dice. One with long hair for women and another with short hair for men. Throw the dice, complete the sentences and color accordingly.

Students will draw their family and write a short description.Ask them questions about the drawing: Who's this? What's his/hername?

Use the designed questionnaires, there are three to choose from, such as “How many people are there in your family?" You can prepare a bar graph on the board. Challenge your students to compete in two teams to see who can collect the most survey responses within a given time limit. Give an award and count the answers.

I am including two old worksheets for this unit. 

 

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Family unit Small Cards for the ESL

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Develop all the confidence needed to be a successful English Language learner. The small cards are helpful to identify family members and other people.

Use the family unit small cards to create an opportunity for your students to extend the vocabulary learned as they organized the cards alphabetically. You might have taught the letter names by now. If not, show them how to put the family words into alphabetical order and say them as they make a line with the cards.

Use the family unit small cards for personalisation of the new vocabulary. Have your students express their own opinion on the text as they describe their mother or any other significant people for them that you assign.

Teach your students to use adjectives to describe the family member when they write texts.

Do this color code spelling activity. Students will choose a color for the vowels and another one for the consonants. Have them write the words accordingly. Have them notice that there is a pattern in the ending of these words: father, mother, brother, grandmother and grandfather.

Students will have to start their thinking and categorizing skills to sort the family members cards by hair color.

Create families. Students will use their reasoning and their problem- solving skills as they classify and organize the people into families. Have them explain their grouping.

Use this tic tac toe game to review grammar points. This kind of games foster communication. Prepare your board game with the printables provided in the resource. It can also be played on the board. One team can be x or o. Place the family members small cards on the spaces on the game. The first team will choose a person on a square and make a correct sentence using the chosen family member. It can be This is Mother/ Mother has blonde hair/

If the sentence is correct, the team will place the X or O on that square and take away that family member. If the sentence is incorrect, the family member will still play on the board.

The first team to make three X or O in a horizontal, vertical or diagonal row will be the winner team. 

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Family unit Flashcards for the Elementary English Language Learner

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Find easy-to-implement strategies for a rich learning environment with these family unit visuals.The focus is on teaching English EFL (as a Foreign Language) it can also be used for ESL/ELL/ELA.

Use the flashcards to introduce structures and the new vocabulary.Create speaking lessons to develop fluency based on any activity proposed here. Introduce the question word:WHO? to ask about people.

Introduce the family members vocabulary.
Teacher: This is father.
This is my mother.
Students can identify family members: Who’s this?
Students: He is the brother.

Develop speaking skills with this activity. Have the students understand and use this/that to introduce a family member. Hand in family members flashcards to several students to adopt that person. Assign a student to introduce them to the class: 

This is my brother. His name is Tomas.
That is my sister. Her name is Rose.

Give information about the family members as communication goes first. Divide the board in two and create a small family and a big family on each side of the board.
Teacher: This is a small family. It’s mother, father, brother and sister.

Teacher: This family is big. Let’s count.

Students can count the members of their family and write it down on piece of paper.
Ask questions: How many people are there in your family?
Student: five.
Ask questions: How many brothers do you have?
Student: two.

You can also assign a last name to each family. For example: This is the Blonde Family. This is the Red Family.

Assign the sister or any other family member flashcard in the middle of the board.  Give her a name, I chose Carol. Make kind of a mind map. Talk about possession: This is Carol’s mother. Continue introducing the family member.

Ask questions: Who’s this?
Students: This is Carol’s father.
Ask questions: Who’s that?
Students: That is Carol’s brother.
Teacher: Is this Carol’s grandpa?
Students: No, it’s Carol’s father.
Understand the names of the people of the family. Students can also give names to people in Carol’s family.
 What’s Carol’s mother name?
Students: Luisa! (write down the name on the board)

Talk about the physical appearance of the family members. Select several flashcards of family members with different hair color.
Teacher: Look at father. What color is his hair?
Students: blond! He has blond hair.
Teacher: Who has brown hair?
Students: Mother!
Teacher: Does the sister have black or red hair?
Student: red hair!

Show the words big and little to introduce the brothers and sisters using the focus vocabulary.

Call out a name of someone in your class. They must stand up and tell everyone a fact about their family. For example: My mother’s name is Anna.’

 Jumbled names Activity. Write the word for each family member with the letters jumbled on the board. For example: emtorh (Mother) Hand in the individual flashcards to the students. Make sure that you include all students as you have a flashcard for each one. At your signal the students have to come up to the board and place their family member under the jumbled word.

Introduce the adjectives such as young or old to describe the family members. Discuss with your students why they are sorting the people into these adjectives.
Teacher: Grandmother is old.
Students: The baby is young.

Using adjectives when speaking will help studentsdescribe people using words.

Also do the adjectives tall and short to describe family members.

Next part will be the Family Unit small cards.

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Face unit Games for Elementary ELL

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              Games promote effective communication between peers by playing with meaningful and engaging materials.

This is a 5-minute gap-filler for your lesson plan to develop linguistic competence.  It is a Listening wrap up activity Let’s call it Hair Dictation. Hand in a copy of the people cards for the students to color as you dictate to them.

Teacher: Look at Anna, she has short curly red hair. (Continue with the other people, students can also help out saying how people look for the classmates to color)

Print a number template that can be used over and over again. Students will cut the people that they just colored. Describe which person will be in which number.

Teacher: Number 6 is a person with short straight brown hair.

Students will complete placing each person on each number.

Here is a video to clear it up:

This activity can be used to supplement the content of your course book. It is focused on the reinforcement of the vocabulary to describe eye and hair. Print the descriptive sentences cards for a group of students and a worksheet for each student. Have them prepare specific detail sentences to write on the worksheets and draw on the person template. Let your students be creative and then share their work with peers. Stuents will develop strog grammar skills.

This game is wonderful to see if your students are understanding the adjectives to write the sentences. 

Take a look at the video on how to use the game:

Playing constitutes the heart of children’s learning, and it prepares them for life.

Playing with cards is also considered a teaching tool to improve concentration and develop fluency. These can be used as a memory game to match a facial feature to a word or a matching game to play on a table or the floor.

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A board game to review the new vocabulary in a fun way to increase socialization at the same time. Print one template for every 3 or 4 students. I made the markers by opening a clip and adding a sticker. There are 4 sets of colored cards. When a student lands on a colored space, he/she grabs that colored card and answers that question in order to move. For example. I landed on a blue space, I grab a blue card and read the question: What color is his hair? I answer: blond.

Games promote a sense of achievement.

Writing with these colorful letters. Use the pictures from the game below as a guide for writing the words. Children will work alone doing this to gain self-develpment.

Or use a worksheet as a guide on how to write the words,

Use this printable as a file folder game. Students will match the phrase to the picture.

You can also do it as a cup game. Check the blog post where I have a similar game for Kindergarten. I glued the label to plastic cups and started the matching activity in a different fun way.

LINK: https://eflpreschoolteachers.blogspot.com/2020/09/face-theme-for-kindergarten-holistic_25.html

Here is the video:

Wrap it up with a Pocket Chart Activity. Buy or make this versatile tool to enhance the learning experience of the new language as students make sentences interacting with their peers.  Students will make sentence to review the adjective word order.

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